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CHINESE POWER PLANT TO OPEN IN 2001 Westinghouse Power Generation has signed a US$170 million contract to supply equipment to a power plant in China.
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Westinghouse and its consortium partners, Black and Veatch of Kansas City, and CMEC of China, will design and supply the turbine and boiler islands for the 700MW two unit, coal-fired Yuzhou p o w e r plant in Henan Province. Project construction is expected to begin later this year, and the plant will commence commercial operation in the first quarter of 2001. The project is being financed by the Asian Development Bank. The two 350 MW steam turbine-generators will be built in W e s t i n g h o u s e ' s North American factories, and various stationary components and services will be supplied by Westinghouse joint venture partners in China.
June 1998
where the impact of deregulation spawned construction of new high efficiency plants," said H Kerner Smith, chairman and CEO of Stone & Webster.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON NEVADA POWER PLANT Houston Industries Inc and E n o v a Corp have b r o k e n ground on a US$280 million, 480 M W power plant project in B o u l d e r City, Nevada, USA. The E1 Dorado energy project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 1999, and will incorporate state-of-theart combined-cycle natural gas turbine technology. The opening of the plant is expected to coincide with the electricity m a r k e t in N e v a d a b e i n g opened to competition. "As other states adopt electricity deregulation, E1 Dorado represents the first of many similar plants likely to be built to sell power on the open market," said Stephen Baum, chairman and chief executive officer of Enova Corporation.
TWO NEW 265 MW PLANTS IN NEW ENGLAND Stone and Webster Incorporated is to provide engineering, p r o c u r e m e n t and c o n s t r u c t i o n on two planned 265 M W combined cycle power plants. The plants, located in Rumford, Maine, USA, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA, feature identical designs and technical solutions. The new facilities are scheduled for commercial operation in the first quarter of 2000, when they will compete in the deregulated market. "We expect a cycle that is somewhat similar to a few years ago in the UK,
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NIGERIAN GAS-TO-LIQUIDS PLANT AGREED Sasol, the South African fuels and petrochemicals company, and Chevron are planning to construct a 20 000 barrel per day gas-to-liquids products plant in Nigeria. The proposed plant would be capable of converting natural gas into synthetic crude oil, w h i c h w o u l d be further ~rocessed into petroleum products, principally high quality, environmentally superior diesel and naptha products.
The agreement follows encouraging results from a recently c o m p l e t e d c o m m e r c i a l and technical evaluation. The proposed plant will incorporate proprietary technologies from the two companies. Chevron will provide its hydroprocessing Isocracking TM technology, and Sasol will contribute its slurry phase distillate, FischerTropsch technology.
MOTOR OIL BOTTLE RECOVERY PLANT PLANNED Fix-Corp International is constructing its first motor oil bottle 'demo' processing unit, and testing of the recycling operation is to begin in the third quarter of 1998. Late last year, Fix-Corp signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the Federal Manufacturing & Technologies business unit of AlliedSignal Inc, giving Fix-Corp the rights to a process for the separation of motor oil from plastics. The patent for the process has been a p p r o v e d and F i x - C o r p is working to apply the process in a massive cleanup of the environmentally hazardous motor oil bottles. A delivery date for the first demo processing unit is set for 1 July 1998, and four tentative testing sites have been selected in California.
NAPTHA CRACKER PROCEEDING ON SCHEDULE The planned project in Phillippines, its next stage
naptha cracker Bataan, the is moving into of development.
The f e a s i b i l i t y study, u n d e r w a y since S e p t e m b e r 1997, is scheduled to conclude in May this year. So far, the p r o j e c t ' s d e v e l o p e r s have r e c e i v e d a favourable soils
report, indicating that the site is adequate for the plant, and contains sufficient water supply. Now l i s t e d by the Phillippines Board of Investment as a 'pioneer project', the Bataan olefin facility will be l o c a t e d in the Greenfield Development Petrochemical and Industrial Park in Mariveles.
RAPID GROWTH FEEDS ALLIANT INVESTMENT Alliant Foodservice, a US foodservice distributor, has broken ground on a US$11 million expansion of its distribution centre in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Alliant officials say the expanded centre will nearly double the current facility's size, to nearly 300 000 square feet. Construction on the project, which will include new freezer, cooler and refrigerated space, is scheduled for completion in mid 1999. Alliant has chosen the Stellar Group, of California, to design and manage construction of the expansion. Mike Brown, market p r e s i d e n t of A l l i a n t Arizona, said that the company is growing so fast, that Alliant is investing in expansions or new buildings in more than 50 ~er cent of its market areas.
BP ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW PLASTICS INVESTMENT BP is to build a state-of-theart p o l y e t h y l e n e plant at Grangemouth, Scotland. Work on the new plant will start immediately, with completion and start-up planned for 2000. Initial capacity will be 300 000 tonnes of linear, low density polyethylene per year, rising to more than 400 000 tonnes in line with market growth. The latest advances in
P()WER (;i,;NERATI()N
CHINESE POWER PLANT TO OPEN IN 2001 Westinghouse Power Generation has signed a US$170 million contract to supply equipment to a power plant in China.
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Westinghouse and its consortium partners, Black and Veatch of Kansas City, and CMEC of China, will design and supply the turbine and boiler islands for the 700MW two unit, coal-fired Yuzhou p o w e r plant in Henan Province. Project construction is expected to begin later this year, and the plant will commence commercial operation in the first quarter of 2001. The project is being financed by the Asian Development Bank. The two 350 MW steam turbine-generators will be built in W e s t i n g h o u s e ' s North American factories, and various stationary components and services will be supplied by Westinghouse joint venture partners in China.
June 1998
where the impact of deregulation spawned construction of new high efficiency plants," said H Kerner Smith, chairman and CEO of Stone & Webster.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON NEVADA POWER PLANT Houston Industries Inc and E n o v a Corp have b r o k e n ground on a US$280 million, 480 M W power plant project in B o u l d e r City, Nevada, USA. The E1 Dorado energy project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 1999, and will incorporate state-of-theart combined-cycle natural gas turbine technology. The opening of the plant is expected to coincide with the electricity m a r k e t in N e v a d a b e i n g opened to competition. "As other states adopt electricity deregulation, E1 Dorado represents the first of many similar plants likely to be built to sell power on the open market," said Stephen Baum, chairman and chief executive officer of Enova Corporation.
TWO NEW 265 MW PLANTS IN NEW ENGLAND Stone and Webster Incorporated is to provide engineering, p r o c u r e m e n t and c o n s t r u c t i o n on two planned 265 M W combined cycle power plants. The plants, located in Rumford, Maine, USA, and Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA, feature identical designs and technical solutions. The new facilities are scheduled for commercial operation in the first quarter of 2000, when they will compete in the deregulated market. "We expect a cycle that is somewhat similar to a few years ago in the UK,
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NIGERIAN GAS-TO-LIQUIDS PLANT AGREED Sasol, the South African fuels and petrochemicals company, and Chevron are planning to construct a 20 000 barrel per day gas-to-liquids products plant in Nigeria. The proposed plant would be capable of converting natural gas into synthetic crude oil, w h i c h w o u l d be further ~rocessed into petroleum products, principally high quality, environmentally superior diesel and naptha products.
The agreement follows encouraging results from a recently c o m p l e t e d c o m m e r c i a l and technical evaluation. The proposed plant will incorporate proprietary technologies from the two companies. Chevron will provide its hydroprocessing Isocracking TM technology, and Sasol will contribute its slurry phase distillate, FischerTropsch technology.
MOTOR OIL BOTTLE RECOVERY PLANT PLANNED Fix-Corp International is constructing its first motor oil bottle 'demo' processing unit, and testing of the recycling operation is to begin in the third quarter of 1998. Late last year, Fix-Corp signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the Federal Manufacturing & Technologies business unit of AlliedSignal Inc, giving Fix-Corp the rights to a process for the separation of motor oil from plastics. The patent for the process has been a p p r o v e d and F i x - C o r p is working to apply the process in a massive cleanup of the environmentally hazardous motor oil bottles. A delivery date for the first demo processing unit is set for 1 July 1998, and four tentative testing sites have been selected in California.
NAPTHA CRACKER PROCEEDING ON SCHEDULE The planned project in Phillippines, its next stage
naptha cracker Bataan, the is moving into of development.
The f e a s i b i l i t y study, u n d e r w a y since S e p t e m b e r 1997, is scheduled to conclude in May this year. So far, the p r o j e c t ' s d e v e l o p e r s have r e c e i v e d a favourable soils
report, indicating that the site is adequate for the plant, and contains sufficient water supply. Now l i s t e d by the Phillippines Board of Investment as a 'pioneer project', the Bataan olefin facility will be l o c a t e d in the Greenfield Development Petrochemical and Industrial Park in Mariveles.
RAPID GROWTH FEEDS ALLIANT INVESTMENT Alliant Foodservice, a US foodservice distributor, has broken ground on a US$11 million expansion of its distribution centre in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Alliant officials say the expanded centre will nearly double the current facility's size, to nearly 300 000 square feet. Construction on the project, which will include new freezer, cooler and refrigerated space, is scheduled for completion in mid 1999. Alliant has chosen the Stellar Group, of California, to design and manage construction of the expansion. Mike Brown, market p r e s i d e n t of A l l i a n t Arizona, said that the company is growing so fast, that Alliant is investing in expansions or new buildings in more than 50 ~er cent of its market areas.
BP ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW PLASTICS INVESTMENT BP is to build a state-of-theart p o l y e t h y l e n e plant at Grangemouth, Scotland. Work on the new plant will start immediately, with completion and start-up planned for 2000. Initial capacity will be 300 000 tonnes of linear, low density polyethylene per year, rising to more than 400 000 tonnes in line with market growth. The latest advances in